1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore comfort one another, and edify each other, as indeed ye do.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
10who died for us, that whether we be awake, or asleep, we may live together with Him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2but let every one of us please our neighbor for his good, to his edification.
1 Corinthians 10:23If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.
1 Corinthians 14:12So ye also, since ye are so desirous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound in them to the edification of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Do ye then think that we are making apologies to you? No, we speak before God in Christ: and all, my beloved, for your edification.
Ephesians 4:16from whom the whole body being fitly joined together and compacted by the aid of every joint, according to the operation proportioned to every part, maketh an increase to the edification of itself in love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10And indeed ye do it to all the brethren, that are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound in it more and more:
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:7-11
Watchfulness and Sobriety. ( a. d. 51.) 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. On… Read the whole commentary →